I am subject lead for the Sociology of Health and Illness at  Plymouth University Peninsula Medical School and an active researcher. In addition to being responsible for the sociology elements of the medical school curriculum I undertake a variety of teaching and management roles including Enquiry Based Learning (EBL), academic tutoring, case unit management, and special study units. I supervise post graduate students at Masters and PhD level and am always interested in taking on more post graduate supervision. I am lead for evaluation and scholarship and co lead our faculty Education and Scholarship group, D.E.S. https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/camera/division-of-education-and-scholarship. 

Broad areas of teaching and research:

• Health inequalities/ social determinants of health and illness 
• Experiences of chronic illness and disability
• Social research methods
• Health professions education

• Member - Behavioural and Social Sciences in Medicine (BeSST), Social Sciences group
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member - British Sociological Association 
• Member - British Sociological Association Auto / Biography Group
• Member - International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)

• Co - Chair - Behavioural and Social Sciences Teaching in Medical Education (BeSST) https://www.besst.info
• Co - Convenor - British Sociological Association (BSA) South West Regional Medical Sociology Group
• Member of the Editorial Committee of Sociological Research Online

Lectures and workshops (often co taught):

• Models of heath, illness and disease
• Occupation, socioeconomic status, health and illness
• Gender, health and illness
• LGBTQI+ health
• Race, ethnicity health and illness
• Disability and medicine
• Health, illness and the life-course
• The patient - doctor relationship
• Shared decision making
• Stigma, health and illness
• Lived experiences of illness with respect to:

• cardiac disease
• domestic abuse
• substance use
• disordered eating
• obesity
• non - legitimated illnesses
• invisible illness

• Social research methods, with a focus on qualitative methodologies
• Health professions education

• Small group facilitation : problem based learning and special studies units.
  
• Co lead ‘Medicine in Society’ Special Studies Unit
  
• PhD supervisor 
  
• Dissertation supervisor Masters in Clinical Education degree programme
  
• Visiting lecturer University of Cardiff Medical School: Identity health and illness. 

• Chair of the Cross Cutting Themes Group (sociology, psychology, medical humanities, ethics and population health)
• Member of the Public and Patient Involvement curriculum working group
• Member of Faculty Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Decolonisation subgroup